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Joseph Conrad Sweeney
John D. Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law


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Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023 		Email: jsweeney@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212.636.6820
Fax: 212.930.8822
Office: Room 136

Experience

  • U.S. Navy JAG Corps, 1957-1962
  • Associate, Haight, Gardner, Poor & Havens; 1963-1966
  • U.S. Delegate, UNCITRAL (Merchant shipping) and UNCTAD since 1972;
  •  U.S. Representative: U.N. Diplomatic Conference on Carriage of Goods by Sea, Hamburg, 1978;
  • Diplomatic Conference on Maritime Law, Brussels, 1979;
  • Alt.Rep. U.N. Diplomatic Conference on Liability of Terminal Operators in International Trade, Vienna, 1991;
  • Visiting E.S. Land Professor of Maritime Affairs, Naval War College, 1972;
  • Distinguished Visiting Professor, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, 1982;
  • John D. Calamari Distinguished Professor of Law;
  • Principal subjects: Admiralty, Air Law, History of the Supreme Court, International Law, International Business Transactions, Interethnic Conflict Resolution (at Fordham since 1966).

 

Education

  • Columbia, LL.M., 1963
  • Boston University, J.D., 1957
  • Harvard, A.B., 1954